Yesterday I installed Fedora 9(Gnome)on my Medion Desktop and have an issue with the keyboard layout at boot. I am using a AZERTY(Dutch ver.) Medion wireless keyboard with receiver connected to a USB port.

If I wish to edit GRUB or enter my password at login the keyboard layout is always US. During installation I had selected Dutch layout for keyboard and had noticed that while setting up the password and user account the wrong characters appeared. After first login I set the keyboard to Dutch and within the user account it works fine once logged in. Yet at boot and login screen the layout is always US (have to think where the character of AZERTY are compared to QWERTY).

Can anyone shead some light on this for me.

ronlau9

08-01-2008 06:20 AM

In my opinion before FC 9 is active the keyboard works according the settings in the BIOS
So my advice check you,re BIOS settings

aus9

08-01-2008 06:29 AM

I have never done one, but it sounds like you need to edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst to include

In my opinion before FC 9 is active the keyboard works according the settings in the BIOS
So my advice check you,re BIOS settings

No entry or option was found in the BIOS that has to do with keyboard layout. Tried installing Mandriva Spring 2008 and have no problems with keyboard layout.

Installing OpenSusse 11.0 and Fedora 9, the keyboard layout at boot is not correct. Very strange...

The method of aus9 works, but I still find it odd That Madriva Spring 2008 has no problem with it. Any ideas, I am curious.

jay73

08-07-2008 04:01 AM

Hi,

I was recently surprised to run into the same issue. I am using an nvidia 9600GT, which means I have to use the latest drivers (still a bit beta). Well, all of a sudden I could not log in anymore because my password was rejected for some reason. I tried all sorts of tricks on the command line trying to figure out what was wrong until I realized that my machine had for some reason reverted to US keyboard layout. I had a look at my xorg.conf, and I found out that it did NOT specify any keyboard layout. So I simply copied those two or three lines of information from the xorg.conf.failsafe and the problem appears to be gone. If you haven't got a failsafe, try this:

Thanks very much for your advice. It has cured all keyboard layout problems. Your are the MAX...

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Originally Posted by jay73
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Hi,

I was recently surprised to run into the same issue. I am using an nvidia 9600GT, which means I have to use the latest drivers (still a bit beta). Well, all of a sudden I could not log in anymore because my password was rejected for some reason. I tried all sorts of tricks on the command line trying to figure out what was wrong until I realized that my machine had for some reason reverted to US keyboard layout. I had a look at my xorg.conf, and I found out that it did NOT specify any keyboard layout. So I simply copied those two or three lines of information from the xorg.conf.failsafe and the problem appears to be gone. If you haven't got a failsafe, try this:

abcdef

03-26-2009 01:54 AM

Have a problem with my keyboard

I have installed fedora 10 in HP 540 laptop.In this single,double qoutes key is not working only this key is not working..
need some help to recover this problem